Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?

Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag
by Craig Seligman
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  A vivid new history of drag told through the life of the pioneering queen Doris Fish
 
In the 1970s, queer people were openly despised, and drag queens scared the public. Yet this was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to...
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Published By PublicAffairs

Format Hardback

Category

Number Of Pages 352

Publication Date 02/28/2023

ISBN 9781541702165

Dimensions 6.4 inches x 9.7 inches


“A life well worth examining….confidently written, wistful and quite personal….had me scrawling exclamation points in the margins.”—Alexandra Jacobs, the New York Times

“This smart, funny, and sexy queer history is a smash.”—Publishers Weekly

“An intimate feel to a lively read. Drag culture and camp humor hit it big…”—Kirkus

“What Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? ultimately does is remind queers, and young drag artists especially, that they have a cultural lineage. Years before RuPaul dared put a drag competition on television, Fish dared be a queen of all media.”—Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

“A wonderfully constructed portrait of not only an important player in queer and drag history, but a document of an era that allowed for a more radical—anti-capitalist, anti-assimilationist, pro-freak—way of living for queer artists. This book filled me with longing and excitement, for both a lost past and the wild possibilities of our future.”—Michelle Tea, author of Knocking Myself Up and Against Memoir

“An entertaining look at the life of drag entertainer Doris Fish… who inadvertently shaped the fight for queer liberation. Campy, fabulous, and informative, Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? is more necessary than ever.”—Buzzfeed

“A perceptive portrait of [a] fascinating person… This honest and compassionate depiction of someone who was true to their passions will inspire readers.”—Library Journal

“[A] fantastic, immersive history of drag… mandatory reading for drag fans and queens of a certain age.”—EDGE Media Network

“Seligman spares his readers none of the horrors of AIDS… And rightly so, for it’s wrong to only remember the glamour of drag queens past—and not the deaths that have made them something we can only remember in the first place.” —The Baffler

"Illuminating." —The Washington Blade

 
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